Repulsion (1965)

Repulsion (1965)
Rating: ★★★★★
Oct 21, 2003Portrait of Madness
A work of considerable brilliance from a young Roman Polanski with Catherine Deneuve as a woman slipping into madness in an apartment over the course of a weekend. What makes the film particularly disturbing is Polanski's lack of a blurring line between reality and hallucination

The Tenant (1976)

The Tenant (1976)
Rating: ★★★★
Jul 2, 2005Apartment Block Paranoia/Identity Exchange
One of Roman Polanski's least recognised films in which he both directs and plays the lead as a mousy man driven to a state of paranoia and the point he loses his identity by the neighbours in a Parisian apartment building

The Phantom of the Opera (1998)

The Phantom of the Opera (1998)
Rating: ★★★
Nov 11, 2000Madman Beneath the Opera House
Dario Argento takes on The Phantom and welcomely rescues it from musical romance and returns it to being a horror film. Despite a beautifully mounted production, Julian Sands' Phantom is too weak and wimpy